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Definition of seamy in English: seamyadjectiveseamier, seamiest ˈsiːmiˈsimi Sordid and disreputable. 丑恶的，卑鄙的 令人恶心的性丑闻。 Example sentencesExamples - A hopeless alcoholic living in a flophouse on the seamy side of town, he was a promising boxer chewed up and spit out by the corrupt amateur circuit.
- What Clarice refers to as ‘the Cause’ quickly gave her an education in the seamy side of politics.
- The shooting death of Blake's wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, highlights the seamy side of Hollywood.
- I have seen this world, the seamy side of it, in all places, but this stuff that we are allowing into this country, and the censor is allowing in, is absolutely disgusting.
- All the stuff about the supposedly seamy side of gaming is way off the mark.
- Yes, that's the thing that disturbs me, because there are so many people who apparently want to hear the seamy side of life about people who are in trouble.
- The set also made good use of images by the Expressionist painters Grosz and Kirchner to depict the seamy side of Berlin.
- The city's seamy side overpowers him, and Nell slips into a self-destructive nosedive.
- In its depiction of a rather run-down and seamy side of New Jersey, it threatens to be taken seriously.
- There can be a seamy side to the transfer of children.
- More than ever our domestic media shoulders the responsibility of focusing on the seamy side of society.
- But research in organizations with nonfacilitative governments highlights the value of bureaucracy and reveals the seamy side of personal relationships.
- Anna descends into the seamy side of commercial S&M clubs to assist in the official investigation into Kathy's disappearance.
- But it is an exaggerated horror, itself suspect, which would make us unable to acknowledge the facts because of the seamy side of the facts.
- His education taught him a lot about the seamy side of life and the way in which an uncaring society could treat those who could not help themselves.
- There was a seamy side to the Congress and its various initiatives, and Saunders exposes it.
- They represent all that we find repugnant in sport, the seamy side of their profession and are, for the most part, to be found swimming against the tide.
- Nevertheless, I do not see sex between consenting adults as seamy, sleazy or even necessarily steamy.
- We'll dig into the seamy side of Los Angeles with the man who gave us ‘LA Confidential’ just ahead.
- To me, the deepest feeling I have about this field is that it is a bitter experience to see the seamy side of life.
Synonyms sordid, disreputable, seedy, sleazy, corrupt, shameful, low, dark, squalid, unwholesome, unsavoury, rough, mean, nasty, unpleasant
Derivativesnoun Pine's saxwork has the seaminess necessary for a private dick of dubious past. Example sentencesExamples - The poet stitches his epic out of speech's defects, not its seemlinesses or even its seaminess.
OriginLate 16th century: from seam + -y. The sense ‘disreputable’ ( early 17th century) arose from the notion of ‘having the rough edges of seams visible’. Rhymesbeamy, creamy, dreamy, gleamy, Mimi, preemie, steamy Definition of seamy in US English: seamyadjectiveˈsēmēˈsimi Sordid and disreputable. 丑恶的，卑鄙的 令人恶心的性丑闻。 Example sentencesExamples - I have seen this world, the seamy side of it, in all places, but this stuff that we are allowing into this country, and the censor is allowing in, is absolutely disgusting.
- A hopeless alcoholic living in a flophouse on the seamy side of town, he was a promising boxer chewed up and spit out by the corrupt amateur circuit.
- The shooting death of Blake's wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, highlights the seamy side of Hollywood.
- The city's seamy side overpowers him, and Nell slips into a self-destructive nosedive.
- To me, the deepest feeling I have about this field is that it is a bitter experience to see the seamy side of life.
- All the stuff about the supposedly seamy side of gaming is way off the mark.
- The set also made good use of images by the Expressionist painters Grosz and Kirchner to depict the seamy side of Berlin.
- But research in organizations with nonfacilitative governments highlights the value of bureaucracy and reveals the seamy side of personal relationships.
- His education taught him a lot about the seamy side of life and the way in which an uncaring society could treat those who could not help themselves.
- More than ever our domestic media shoulders the responsibility of focusing on the seamy side of society.
- Yes, that's the thing that disturbs me, because there are so many people who apparently want to hear the seamy side of life about people who are in trouble.
- Nevertheless, I do not see sex between consenting adults as seamy, sleazy or even necessarily steamy.
- What Clarice refers to as ‘the Cause’ quickly gave her an education in the seamy side of politics.
- But it is an exaggerated horror, itself suspect, which would make us unable to acknowledge the facts because of the seamy side of the facts.
- There was a seamy side to the Congress and its various initiatives, and Saunders exposes it.
- Anna descends into the seamy side of commercial S&M clubs to assist in the official investigation into Kathy's disappearance.
- We'll dig into the seamy side of Los Angeles with the man who gave us ‘LA Confidential’ just ahead.
- They represent all that we find repugnant in sport, the seamy side of their profession and are, for the most part, to be found swimming against the tide.
- In its depiction of a rather run-down and seamy side of New Jersey, it threatens to be taken seriously.
- There can be a seamy side to the transfer of children.
Synonyms sordid, disreputable, seedy, sleazy, corrupt, shameful, low, dark, squalid, unwholesome, unsavoury, rough, mean, nasty, unpleasant
OriginLate 16th century: from seam + -y. The sense ‘disreputable’ ( early 17th century) arose from the notion of ‘having the rough edges of seams visible’. |